Bottle-cap.



P. H. QUINN.

BOTTLE GAP. APPLICATION FILED APB-.27. 1914.

Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

3mm P HQUINN PATRICK H. QUINN, 0F SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE-CAP.

Application filed April 27, 1914.

To aZZ w/zom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PATRICK H. QUINN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bott-le-(japs, of which the following is a specitication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to bottle caps or analogous devices, and particularly to an extracting means therefor; and it has for its primary object the provision of extracting means that can be advantageously applied to the ordinary paper disk commonly used as a closure for milk bottles, and it is intended that the said means be formed from a single length of tape of suitable texture which may be looped through the central portion of the disk and terminally secured to the under side of the disk and provided above the disk and at the center thereof with a relatively flexible manipulating loop which may be freely grasped between the fingers ot' the hand of the operator when it is desired to remove the cap from the bottle.

Another object of the invention is the provision of an extracting device which may be used in connection with. paper disks and connected therewith so as to prevent the disk from leaking at its point of connection with the device.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a device of this character wh ch will consist of a disk having a central vertical slit and an extracting element formed of a single length of tape having a width exceeding the length of the slit, so that the tape will he snuglv confined in the slit and thcrcbv cause the slit to be positively scaled.

With these and other objects in view, the

invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed. 7

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure l is a perspective view of :1 cu,- sho ing the application of the extracting device thereto; Fig. 2 is a vertical section thercthrough; Fig. 3 is a plan view ot' the disk, showing the extracting device re- Specification of Letters Patent.

n disk,

Patented Feb. 16, 1915,

Serial No. 834,781.

moved; and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the tape.

The disk 1, aside from the centrally located slit is of a form commonly used upon millr bottles, so as to serve as a closure therefor. The slit extends entirely through the disk. and, as shown, the loop 3 of an extracting tape l is assed through the slit.

The tape has a width exceeding the length of the slit 2, so that portions of the tape will be snugly confined between the Walls of the slit, and. as a consequence of this arrangement, the slit will be sealed and the contents of the bottle will be held against leaking from the slit. The tape is formed of a single length of textile material havinga body or sullicient texture to permit of the application of necessary pull thereto without causing a separation of the extracting loop of the tape from the attaching portion thereof. The terminals 5, 5 of the tape are rcs u-ctivcly extended in opposite directions beneath the disk and the said terminals are treated to a water-proof cement 6, which is secured to the under side of the disk, whereby the main attaching part of the tape thus becomes impervious and additional sealing of the slit 2 is satisfactorily effected and leakage of the disk at this point is properly eliminated.

While the device is particularly designed to he used in connection with milk bottle caps it is obviously to be understood that I do not propose to limitinyself to the application of the device as it may be used on various forms of receptacles having removable closurcs that are adapted to be lifted from the open cud of the receptacle, It is also to be understood that by maki'iig the extracting tape in the manner specified that the same may be readily adjusted against the upper surface of the cap to lie in a flat condition thereon, so that the cap may be o crativclv fed from any well known form ol rapping machine without the loop 3 interfering with the discharge of the cap from the machine.

I claim .\s a new article of manufacture, a sealing cap having a radially disposed elongated slit intersecting its axial center, and

an extracting tape of textile material folded In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my on itself intermediate its length and having signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

its free extremities projected through the slit, the projectetyportions of the extremities PATRICK QUINN being directly secured to the under face of Vitnesses:

the cap, saidtape being of a Width in excess J mm P. McGnATH, of the length of the slit. WILLIAM J. MQGRATH. 

